Yesterday

Listener Mail: Big Tobacco, Kaikōura LightsTheories, Post-Snuff Messages and More

The Chef calls in with a fascinating theory on the Kaikōura lights. Nemesis shares an inside look at Big Tobacco, answering Ben's earlier question about smoking inside (and much more). In the wake of the infamous Snuff episode, multiple Conspiracy Realists reach out with jokes, p ... Show More

55m 39s

Oct 8

What Comes After Humans? Chapter One: A Brief, Brightly Burning Light

Humans! Seems like they're everywhere these days. They've also been great for our show, so thanks! Anyhow, the Age of the Anthropocene has fundamentally altered the natural world -- and, no matter what happens, the legacy of the human will remain long after the actual species is ... Show More

49m 37s

Oct 7

CLASSIC: Operation Infektion: Russia's AIDS Conspiracy

HIV and AIDS, the syndrome the infection causes, have become the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Over the decades people have proposed the infection was purposely designed to kill certain segments of the public, or that it was a lab experiment gone wrong, or that it didn ... Show More

51m 11s

Apr 2021

The killing of Osama Bin Laden

The US tracked down the al-Qaeda leader to a city in northern Pakistan in May 2011. Special operations troops were sent to capture or kill Bin Laden in a top secret raid in the dead of night. The Americans did not tell their Pakistani allies about the raid beforehand. Gabriela Jo ... Show More

9m 1s

Aug 2022

The Killing of bin Laden’s Successor

On Monday, President Biden announced that the United States had killed Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike in Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri was the leader of Al Qaeda. A long time number two to Osama bin Laden and the intellectual spine of the terrorist group, he assumed power after bin ... Show More

18m 46s

Apr 2021

Meeting Osama bin Laden

When the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan agreed to go and interview Osama bin Laden in 1996 he was apprehensive. By the time he reached the Al-Qaeda leader's mountain hideout - he was shaken and scared - but what was the man himself really like? Claire Bowes reports.This ... Show More

9m 57s

May 2021

The killing of Osama Bin Laden

It is 10 years since the al-Qaeda leader was killed. We look at the US special forces operation that finally tracked him down to a city in northern Pakistan, the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, one of the events that shaped his world view; we talk to a Western-based jour ... Show More

49m 33s

May 2018

Secrets of Osama Bin Laden's Hard Drive

What was actually found on Osama Bin Laden's recovered Hard Drive? In Episode 3, Robert is joined by Ify Nwadiwe (Nerdificent) and they discuss the unraveling mysteries of what Osama Bin Laden was really watching. Spoiler Alert: tons of porn, anime, 'witchcraft hentai' and so mu ... Show More

51m 30s

Jan 2023

01/29/2023: Killing Bin Laden

A former member of SEAL Team 6, Mark Owen, recounts the raid that killed the world's most wanted man: Osama bin Laden. Owen, now retired, says the SEALs trained for the mission using a full-size replica of the bin Laden compound, and that a dress rehearsal was held for military t ... Show More

49m 17s

Sep 2021

Rob O’Neill: Reflecting On 9/11, The Mission To Kill Usama bin Laden & Afghanistan, 20 Years Later

Jason is joined by former U.S. Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who discusses the lessons he learned growing up in Montana, his experience with SEAL Team Six, and being part of the 2011 mission that killed Usama bin Laden. In part two of the conversation, Jason asks Rob for his opinion on ... Show More

1h 43m

CLASSIC: Did Osama Bin Laden really die ...